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SITCOMTN-165: Surface brightness profiles around massive galaxies in LSSTComCam data

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  1. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and Physics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
  3. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
  4. Department of Physics, Brown University
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Low surface brightness photometry of massive galaxies can probe the extended stellar halos and intracluster light but is often limited by background subtraction and masking systematics. Here we present radial surface brightness profiles for the brightest cluster galaxy of Abell 360 and 2dFGRS TGS323Z113 using Rubin Observatory Commissioning Camera (LSSTComCam) Data Preview 1 in the g, r, and z bands. Our results show that the LSSTComCam data can go down to ~28 mag arcsec^-2 in the r band. Comparison to DECaLS measurements processed with Legacyhalos shows good agreement of surface brightness profiles at small radii while the LSSTComCam data extend deeper at larger radii.
Research Organization:
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515;
Other Award/Contract Number:
NSF Cooperative Agreement AST-1258333
NSF Cooperative Agreement AST-2241526
NSF Cooperative Support Agreement AST-1202910
NSF Cooperative Support Agreement AST-2211468
OSTI ID:
3000576
Report Number(s):
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning Technical Note SITCOMTN-165
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

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Reaching for the Edge I: probing the outskirts of massive galaxies with HSC, DECaLS, SDSS, and Dragonfly journal July 2022
Individual stellar haloes of massive galaxies measured to 100 kpc at 0.3 < z < 0.5 using Hyper Suprime-Cam journal December 2017
Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys journal April 2019
Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020 journal October 2023
LSST Commissioning Camera dataset January 2024
RTN-095: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 dataset July 2025
SITCOMTN-149: An Interim Report on the LSSTComCam On-Sky Campaign dataset January 2025

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